Archive of 622 letters, over 2.700 manuscript pages, with enevelopes, includes a 40 page diary of Elinor E. Weber, plus 20 postcards, photographs, and other ephemeral material. more >
folio, 14 typescript – carbon pages, on rectos only, lacking the text of page one of Parker’s account, accounting for 19 lines of text in the printed version, supplied here in facsimile, the last page is signed and dated by Parker. more >
octavo, 8 pages, written in pencil, on the letter-head of the Jewish Welfare Board, American Embarkation Center, Le Mans Area, accompanied by original mailing envelope, in good legible condition. more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub